A 24-year-old housewife’s desire to remove an ill-advised shoulder tattoo of her cat has resulted in a shockingly grotesque scene – so much so that many were left wondering just what the doctors were thinking.

Although getting rid of such an awful tattoo is an understandable desire, just why slicing off the unfortunate lady’s shoulder (presumably to be replaced by a graft from elsewhere) was considered preferable to simple laser removal treatment is not explained.

Given Japanese attitudes towards tattoos (only vile criminals get them) and personal indiscretions (best atoned for with a pointlessly extreme gesture up to and including suicide), an element of sadism or masochism does not seem out of the question, and Japanese TV certainly seems to be revelling in the grisly result.

Japanese TV gives repenting tattoo victims the full “anonymous victim/criminal” treatment, claiming most of the women who get tattoos regret them after marriage, as they find themselves banned from various public places and risk stigmatising their children:

It is stupid esp when half the procedures used were surprisingly primitive it was looking back to the 1950s and even then they still had better options then excision for small tattoos.
She should have flew to Europe or the US to get it removed. Yes it would be expensive but at least you won't look like a victim of a shark attack.

having a tatto has nothing to do with being primitive or not. That's just showing your ignorance about the topic.

Tatoos among many others are "fashion", fashion is a social way of adaptation. This adaptation comes from the subconcious, and works like culture, in the very same way. And abviously it's irrational as most of the subconcious's tendencies.

So tatoo or not. It just denotes the social enviroment that person comes from.

I, myself, am againts using a tatoo, because as it's just fashion, hence irrational, it's a awste of money for something that doesn't venefit me in anyway. But doesnt mean i would ban them just for that. instead i would make propaganda agains it so that next generations' children wouldn't want to have a tatoo.

well if you want it as a kind of art then i have no problem but it's dificult to diferentiate ART from SOCIAL DEPENDENCY, at least with tatoo.
how do u know if someone has a tatoo as a way of self expression, of just because everyone in the neightborhood has one.

the best option would be to teach people how to diferentiate between what you want and what people make you want.

and as for the manga, i think it's a necesity as for the lack of "girls like you want" i want to see you after 2 years without a fuck. And also isnt it a kind or art too?

its a waste of money in anyway you look at it, but if you want to call it art then whatever. The only way it woulnd't be a waste of money would be if you consider the subjective part, a it would be leasening your disire for one....art is a subjective idea, that's why i don't have problems wth it if it's art, but then again, diferentiate between the two.

8:29 are you actually serious? Propaganda to "teach" people not to get tattoos? You DO realize that many people use them as an expression of self, right?

Tell people not to paint, not to write stories, and not to play music, while you're at it. Those are "wastes" of money when it comes down to it. One doesn't "need" to use paper from a perfectly live tree to draw the manga that you so needlessly jerk off to, do they?

You must be the type that agrees with the banning of people with tattoos in the public. What you define "primitive" might not be for some other people. In reverse what you do yourself might be considered primitive by other people, you just don't think that way.

Light and pastel color inks cannot be removed by laser. In those cases, the only solution is to remove the skin and let it stretch back between treatments, which can be numerous depending on area and location.

Actually it would be no problem. I saw a quick article about a circumsized man who attatched weights to his penis skin and regrew his foreskin. if ya cut it off it can always grow/stretch back. it just takes time